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Feb 23, 2009 - ation in BDNF and antidepressant treatment outcome in the context of melancholic depression. Received 30 July 2008; Reviewed 3 September ...
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (2010), 13, 93–101. Copyright f 2009 CINP doi:10.1017/S1461145709000030

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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene: no major impact on antidepressant treatment response

THEMATIC SECTION New Aspects in the Treatment of Affective Disorders

Katharina Domschke1, Bruce Lawford2,3, Gonzalo Laje4, Klaus Berger5, Ross Young3, Phillip Morris3, Ju¨rgen Deckert6, Volker Arolt1, Francis J. McMahon4 and Bernhard T. Baune7 1

Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Germany Division of Mental Health, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 4 Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit, NIMH, NIH, USDHHS 5 Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, Germany 6 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wuerzburg, Germany 7 Department of Psychiatry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia 2

Abstract The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been suggested to play a pivotal role in the aetiology of affective disorders. In order to further clarify the impact of BDNF gene variation on major depression as well as antidepressant treatment response, association of three BDNF polymorphisms [rs7103411, Val66Met (rs6265) and rs7124442] with major depression and antidepressant treatment response was investigated in an overall sample of 268 German patients with major depression and 424 healthy controls. False discovery rate (FDR) was applied to control for multiple testing. Additionally, ten markers in BDNF were tested for association with citalopram outcome in the STAR*D sample. While BDNF was not associated with major depression as a categorical diagnosis, the BDNF rs7124442 TT genotype was significantly related to worse treatment outcome over 6 wk in major depression (p=0.01) particularly in anxious depression (p=0.003) in the German sample. However, BDNF rs7103411 and rs6265 similarly predicted worse treatment response over 6 wk in clinical subtypes of depression such as melancholic depression only (rs7103411 : TT